Threats to data

It is very important to protect your data from threats because otherwise you could lose all your work and wont be able to get it back.  Some common threats and ways to protect your data from them are:

• Viruses - Install a virus protection to protect your computer from viruses.  You can get the viruses form anywhere such as e mails or websites.
• Theft - Keep backups for your server and personal data.  Putting it on an external hard drive in a different place such as work or a friends house could protect it from theft and natural disasters.
• Computer failure - Constantly save your work so if something goes wrong with your computer you can get most of your work back.
• Renaming files with names which aren't understood - Name your files properly so your computer doesn't have a problem with them.  No spaces or symbols is a good rule to keep.
• Hacking - Protect your password.  Don't have a password that is easy to guess and don't tell anyone what it is.  It is also good practice to change your password from time to time if you want to be extra careful.

At school, two hard drives were stolen, but because there were back ups stored somewhere else, the school were able to get back all the files they lost.  

In Photoshop, I didn't know how to name files properly and named the image with spaces.  The computer could not understand this and wouldn't open the file so I couldn't open the image again.  

Quite often the computer with freeze or shut down and if I haven't saved my work, I could lose everything I have been working on.